Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/03
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A good non-meter based exposure guide (apart from the excellent one in =20
the Kodak Professional Photoguide, available from Amazon.Com) can be =20
obtained on the following web-site =20
http://www.photak.com/photo/exposure.html
But the sunny 16 rule is a good one. Set your speed to that of your =20
film. Then the aperture at, f/16 if it is very sunny. Open up a stop =20
for every degree your light is worse than this. Sunny, but with clouds =
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around, f/11; more clouds than sun, f/8; open shade f/5.6 (this is a very=
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common North European climatic condition!!); closed shade f/4, and so on.
Things get harder after this, but the two guides I referred to, offer =20
very useful guidelines -- even for those with their own meters!
Best of luck.
Martin Davidson
Gabe Sachs wrote:
>
> Hello there. Everyone has been so helpful here, so now help me solve
> something. I love my M6 and I love my IIIF. Does anyone have a
> shortcut or a simple formula to calculate exposure without depending on
> a meter. I want to just take my IIIF and shoot without a meter. Are
> there any home made guidelines that anyone out there uses or should I
> just get out there and shoot a bunch of rolls and guesstimate all the
> way.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Gabe
Gabe,
The table below is slightly modified from an old Modern Photography
special edition, Photo Information Almanac, which cited it from a Kodak
puplication. You should consider the settings as starting points; i.e.
the "people by bonfire" either underexposes by 2 stops or Kodak's
writing staff make even bigger bonfires than we Brazillians :) .
I hope it helps.
Amilcar
ISO 64 ISO 100 ISO 400
Lighted street 1/30s f:1,4 1/3 1/30s f:2 1/60s f:2,8
Neon signs 1/30s f:2,8 1/3 1/30s f:4 1/60s f:5,6
Shop windows 1/30s f:2 1/3 1/30s f:2,8 1/60s f:4
People by streetlights 1/4s f:1,4 1/3 1/4s f:2 1/15s f:2
Fountains, monuments 1s f:2,8 1/3 1s f:4 1/4s f:4
City Horizon 4s f:2 1/3 4s f:2,8 1s f:2,8
Horizon 10 min after sunset 1/30s f:2,8 1/3 1/30s f:4 1/60s f:5,6
Amusement park 1/15s f:1,4 1/3 1/15s f:2 1/60s f:2
Fireworks B f:5,6 1/3 B f:8 B f:16
Rel=E2mpagos B f:4 1/3 B f:5,6 B f:11
People by bonfires 1/8s f:1,4 1/3 1/8s f:2 1/30s f:2
Indoor playing courts 1/30s f:2 1/3 1/30s f:2,8 1/60s f:4
Moonscape 30s f:1,4 1/3 30s f:2 30s f:4